I just finished my first film effort and I'm basically happy with how it looks in the FCP viewer. I'm sort of just learning this as I go.
I'm using a Mac G5, FCP 4 and Dvd SP 2, and the film is 11 min long. It has a little animation (from LiveType) but I'm not looking for anything fancy - just a clean transfer to DVD.
MPEG 2 is causing an error (quicktime doesn't recognize it) so I'm trying to use a .mov file. Any recommendations for the settings to use? My attempts so far have been grainy (especially were there is some opacity in the clip.) Trying to export uncompressed gives an error about the file size, then it shuts down.
Any advice would be appreciated.

i think that you might need to upgrade your quicktime and be sure you
get the mpeg-2 addition which should have come with dvdsp... check
apple's discussion boards. it's also downloadable.
if you still haven't any luck, try the animation codec. it's not perfect but
is is lossless and pretty decent for dvds (i have noticed artifacts though
in fades for example).

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